google and links

does size matter?

[kanama]

unsure if this is the right place but...

im contemplating my new navigation design, which involves a new layout. not only that but i'll be changing the size of the links via css

does google differentiate between links that are 12px to those that are 10px and do they treat them diferently?

i know h1 tags are regcognised but that is identified in the html and not the css whereas my font size will be defined in the css

[bether2]

Your question isn't clear to me. So, maybe not to others and maybe why no response yet. ;)

What do you mean by "changing the size of the links"?

Beth

[jbinbpt]

Hi Kanama,

If you are changing the font size in css for your links, it won't matter to the search engines. The exception to that is if you are assigning a <h1> or a <h2> tag to it. That might add some benefit.

jb

[satanclaus]

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[AjiNIMC]

No, as far as I think it doesn't differentiate the size, but yeah the main factor is anchor text.

Aji

[espeed]

I have worked with code from Google/Stanford parsers, and the parsers did detect font size if you use font tags to set it (i.e. CSS wasn't a factor). As I recall, font size was looked at as how large it is relative to other text in the page.